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mobile identity into the application and
essentially that gets integrated with their
own database. HID Global would have
to provide an interface to the hub, which
is the centre where the data conversion
happens to secure and annonymise it,
before it gets sent out over the internet
to the mobile device. They do not need
to provide any specific technology.”
As with any technology implementation
project, HID Global is also working with
regional partners in the implementation
of Nigerian Police Biometric Central
Motor Registry, mobile ID project. HID
Global and Media Concepts designed
the project so that the new offering could
be integrated directly into the current
enrollment process, allowing migration
to mobile IDs. “We are open to different
business models depending on the nature
of the engagement that the partner has
with the government agency. We can
work with them to construct the project
from scratch that they would manage
from the ground,” says Haslam.
So compelling is the mobile ID
innovation that Haslam expects
a mushrooming of use cases and
verification scenarios as longer term
benefits for citizens. When the mobile ID
readers are meant for law enforcement
their distribution would be more secured
since they would have access to full
citizen information. For other more
public use cases they could be offered as
downloadable applications.
Key benefits from Seos
• Seos enables secure identities to be mobile
• Seos changes a smart device into a credential
• Seos enables credentials, readers to communicate across open
systems
• Seos uses standards-based cryptography to provision secure identities
• Seos protects secure identities across broad range of mobile OS
platforms
• Seos is based on strong mutual authentication between application on
citizen phone and reading device
• Seos protects against man in the middle, reflection, reply, other attacks
• Seos ensures credential holder is not tracked, identified by
unauthorized party
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As governments start deploying mobile
IDs into citizen smartphones with
increasing success, the solution will
soon be ready to cross borders and cross
applications. Ubiquitous smartphones
will then have transformed into
ubiquitous mobile IDs.
How Seos performs
Security for mobile I